xvii, 430 pages ; 24 cm

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-417)

Includes indexes

1. Perspectives on loneliness / Letitia Anne Peplau and Daniel Perlman -- I: Aloneness -- 2. Who is alone? Social characteristics of people with small networks / Claude S. Fischer and Susan L. Phillips -- 3. Time alone in daily experience: Reed Larson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Ronald Graef -- 4. Aloneness as healing experience / Peter Suedfeld -- II: Conceptual and methodological issues in studying loneliness -- 5. Issues in the study of loneliness / Robert S. Weiss -- 6. The measurement of loneliness / Daniel Russell -- 7. Types of loneliness / Jenny de Jong-Gierveld and Jos Raadschelders -- III: Theoretical approaches to loneliness -- 8. Theoretical approaches to loneliness / Daniel Perlman and Letitia Anne Peplau -- 9. Loneliness and self-evaluation / Letitia Anne Peplau, Maria Miceli, and Bruce Morasch -- 10. Why loneliness occurs: the interrelationship of social-psychological and privacy concepts / Valerian J. Derlega and Stephen T. Margulis -- 11. A general systems approach to loneliness / James P. Flanders -- IV: Loneliness in adulthood -- 12. The prototype of a lonely person / Leonard M. Horowitz, Rita de S. French, and Craig A. Anderson -- 13. The experience of loneliness / Carin M. Rubenstein and Phillip Shaver -- 14. Loneliness, spiritual well-being and the quality of life / Raymond F. Paloutzian and Craig W. Ellison -- 15. Loneliness and social behavior / Warren H. Jones -- V: Developmental perspectives on loneliness -- 16. Children without friends / Zick Rubin -- 17. Loneliness at adolescence / Tim Brennan -- 18. Transition to college: loneliness and the process of social adjustment / Carolyn E. Cutrona -- 19. Loneliness: antecedents and coping strategies in the lives of widows / Helena Z. Lopata, Gloria D. Heinemann, and Joanne Baum -- 20. Being old and living alone / Letitia Anne Peplau, Tora K. Bikson, Karen S. Rook, and Jacqueline D. Goodchilds -- VI: Therapy of loneliness -- 21. Perspectives on helping the lonely / Karen S. Rook and Lelitia Anne Peplau -- 22. Loneliness, depression and cognitive therapy: theory and application / Jeffrey E. Young -- A bibliography on loneliness / Letitia Anne Peplau and Daniel Perlman

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